The Comac C919, which is positioned to compete with Boeing’s 737 Max and Airbus’s A320, took its first commercial flight this week, from Shanghai to Beijing
Enthusiastic Chinese waved and shouted Sunday from Shanghai’s Hongqiao International Airport, as the first homegrown passenger jet took off for its maiden commercial voyage.
The C919 flight, run by China Eastern Airlines 670 CHEAF , left Shanghai and arrived at Beijing’s Capital Airport two hours later, with state television streaming the event and observers gathered for the departure and arrival. But getting the jet airborne wasn’t easy, with a slew of manufacturing setbacks that have made its production a 16-year slog. Moreover, many of its key parts are still produced in the West, mostly from the U.S. — a country that appears keen to squeeze China’s ability to acquire high-level technology.
China’s smaller private carriers also lowered their prices in the first quarter, while the state-owned giants generally did not. The government’s fingerprints appeared discernible. In February, several carriers told Chinese financial-news outlet Caixin that the powerful State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission actually restricted seven state-owned airlines from steeply cutting prices on major routes.
He said China simply doesn’t have the production capacity to meet the needs of such a vast country. Last year, Boeing forecast that China’s commercial fleet will double in number by 2041, adding 8,485 new aircraft, to match passenger demand.
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